Help me with my site please.

[UkN0WnSCAA]

Ok i need to know some good programs because i am using First Page and i dont know how to make sites like the ones i see online. I need to know how people use Photoshop to make sites because i have photoshop CS and i want to make my site better then it is now...(now it has no pages up because it didnt look good at all)

Please someone explain to me how to...also i really dont care about the file sizes when i post because i found a free host that gives 5GB of space for free (and i can alwase ask for more) and 10 GB of bandwith(i think). Thanks everyone that helps me :D

[Eudemon]

I can recommend that you buy Web Developer and Web Design magazine from WH Smith or the like as these will give you some good free software. I you don't wish to purchase them then the software you will require is at best, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and some resources in learning HTML, XHTML, CSS and maybe XML also.

 

Check out sites such as:

 

http://www.w3schools.com

http://www.tutorialized.com

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://www.adobe.com

http://www.computerarts.co.uk

http://www.photoshopcafe.com

http://www.sitepoint.com

 

I would recommend that you learn to hand code HTML, XHTML and CSS though as Dreamweaver might be able to make a site for you but there will always be a time where you will have to edit something yourself and DW won't know how to do it effectively. If you are keen on getting into this then check out sitepoint.com and register for the forums. So much good info and advice and the people are really helpful also.

 

Good luck with the site !

[Pherelas]

http://www.tutorialize.com is down at the moment by the looks of things.

[Eudemon]

http://www.tutorialize.com[/url] is down at the moment by the looks of things.

Sorry I missed out a 'd'. Also added another link to the list also.

[Pherelas]

Oh right, whats the other site then, apache thing is a website managment thing like joomla and that thing that begins with m isn't it?

[Eudemon]

Apache is nothing like Joomla, Joomla is what is called a Content Management System or CMS, Apache is a Web Server application in that it allows you to run a full web server with it and is compatible with almost every web scripting language and Control Panel (CP) around just like it shows there with Cpanel and Web Hosting Manager (WHM).

 

Joomla is a CMS which means it is a bunch of files that interact with the web server (Windows or Linux) and database server in order to serve pages and content to the visitors browser. CMS's that you will usually find on Linux based Apache servers will normally run on PHP for the scripting and MySQL for the database. Windows servers can also use these but they usually cost more plus more people prefer Apache as it's very secure and fairly easy to work with.

 

I would recommend searching for some of the terms up top to learn if you want or as I said above checj out sitepoint.com as that is a brilliant site for info and tutorials.

[Pherelas]

Oh right, sorry. Why would you install it apache then and why would it be online?